The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having
moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS)
base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from
the CVE link in the References section.

A denial of service flaw was found in the way certain strings were
converted to Double objects. A remote attacker could use this flaw to
cause Java based applications to hang, for example, if they parsed
Double values in a specially crafted HTTP request. (CVE-2010-4476)

All users of java-1.4.2-ibm are advised to upgrade to these updated
packages, which contain the IBM 1.4.2 SR13-FP8 Java release. All
running instances of IBM Java must be restarted for this update to
take effect.

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